H. Hunt Private Quotations

I have done everything in my power to maintain, uphold, and secure your rights, but I have failed upon this occasion. I shall retire into private life with the reflection, that I have never, upon any occasion, flinched from performing my duty to you, and the whole of the working classes of the United Kingdom.

I am informed that hunger strikers are being force-fed in a brutal manner bordering on the sadistic. The best way for me to check the accuracy of these and other allegations ... is to visit, see the conditions for myself, to talk privately with detainees.

The problem is, the private sector doesn't have the balance sheet capacity to take on more debt, and the banking system is not in a position to extend more credit. So monetary policy may not work at all.

The most damaging bills were defeated. One bill that would have allowed any communication between elected officials to become private was taken out. It required a lot of work among the news media and public interest groups to stop this and all the work paid off.